Serge Rielau wrote:
> Fernando Nunes wrote:
>> Possibly I'm not seeing the whole picture... But this would be a good
>> feature for many cross platform migrations. Even with a performance
>> hit it would be much easier and in many situations quicker to migrate
>> than using other methods.
> You are correct. There is room for tooling that "morphs" databases.
> This can be changing endianess, but also code pages (e.g. move to
> Unicode). In DB2 the db2move utility is the tool of choice, but it has
> still ways to go. Perhaps similar tooling exists in IDS?
>
> Cheers
> Serge
>
I'd have to check about db2move... Don't remember about it from my DB2 studying
But there is no such tool in IDS...
The conversion for UNICODE seems to me such an hard task, that you may as well
use the normal ways to reload your data...
As for the cross-platform restore I'd say that it's much simpler (excluding the
different default page sizes) but this is an idea from someone who doesn't know
enough about the subject

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